CBRC Grants

Chandroth, A. Geological Society of America Travel Grant. $600

Chandroth, A. Geological Society of America On to the Future Mentor Award. $800 (Total value)

Chandroth, A. STRATA Award North American Paleontology Convention Total Value - $800

LaBarge, T.W.The Isotopic Evolution of the Serengeti Ecosystem. The Exploration Fund Grant, The Explorers Club, $5,000.

Njau, J.K.Fifty Years After LUCY: The Eastern African Association for Paleoanthropology & Paleontology (EAAPP) conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Wenner-Gren Foundation ($20,000).

Zimmerman, A., and Johnson, C.C., NOAA  9/22-9/24; $40,000; Title: Ocean Protector: A game-based curriculum to teach the impacts of ocean acidification and positive actions to help.Ocean Acidification Program Education Mini-Grant Program  

Geological Society of America 2023, On to the Future Fellowship (Anupama Chandroth)

Paleosynthesis project at University of Erlangen, Germany, Analytical Paleobiology Summer School, Invited participant, Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (Anupama Chandroth)

The Paleontological Research Institution John W. Wells Grant-in-Aid of Research (Samantha Hartzell)

Geological Society of America Graduate Student Research Grant (Samantha Hartzell)

Clay Minerals Society, Student Research Grant, (Kirsten Hawley)

International Association of GeoChemistry, PhD Student Research Grant (Thomas W. LaBarge)

The Geological Society of America, Charles A. & June R.P. Ross Research Grant (Thomas W. LaBarge)

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Jackson School of Geosciences Student Travel Grant (Charles J. Salcido)

Motz, G., Johnson, C.C., Polly, P.D.  NSF 8/1/17 - 7/30/19; $149,387. Digitization PEN: Paleoniches on the western Cincinnati arch, the Ordovician of Indiana.

Motz, G., Polly, P.D., and Johnson, C.C.  IMLS – Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-30-16-0458-16; 10/1/16 - 9/30/18, one-year no-cost extension to 9/30/19, $112,505.  ACCESSioning at Indiana University: Promoting Digital Access and (Re-) Discovery of the IU Paleontology Collection.

Schieber, L., Johnson, C.C., Polly, P.D., and Elswick, E.R.  NSF EAR 9/1/09-8/31/13, $475,302. Infrastructure upgrade, curation and data basing of Indiana University collections.

Kort, A.E. Charles A. and June R.P. Ross Research Grant. Geological Society of America. 2022. Enigmatic evolution of lumbar vertebrae and diversification of locomotion in mammals.

Kort, A. E. Paleontological Society Student Research Grant. 2022. Evolution of lumbar vertebrae in Paleogene mammals.

LaBarge, T.W. Paleontological Society Student Research Grant. 2022. Application of stable nitrogen isotopes as proxy for trophic relationships of East African Pleistocene megafauna.

McHenry, L.J. (PI), Njau, J.K. (co-PI), Hynek, B (co-PI). African Rift fluvio-lacustrine analog for Jezero crater, Mars. NASA, Solar System Workings.2022-25. IU subaward ($71,962).

Njau, J.K. (PI). Eastern Africa Association of Paleoanthropology & Paleontology (EAAPP). Wenner- Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Conference Grant, 2022. ($20,000).

Peltier, D.M. The Leakey Foundation Research Grant. 2022. The drivers of faunal community dynamics and its implications on hominin occupation during Bed II times, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

Stone, A.C. (PI), Polly, P.D. (co-PI), Winingear, S., and Outerbridge, M. Sequencing the genome of Poecilozonites bermudensis, the Bermudian land snail. Dovetail Genomics “Tree of Life” award. 2020-2022. ($35,000).

Guiry, E.J. (PI), Kennedy, J.R. (Co-PI). Building millennial-scale records of turtle ecology in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Chelonian Research Foundation, Juston Congdon and Nancy Dickson Research Fund, $4,750.

McHenry, L.J. (PI), Njau, J.K. (Co-PI). An East African Rift fluvio-lacustrine analog for Jezero crater, Mars. NASA, #80NSSC21K1830. Subaward to IU ($71,962).

Gomez-Robles, A. (PI), and Polly, P.D. (co-PI). Species or local variant? Using modelling to test hypotheses of speciation in human evolution. Leverhulme Trust.

Guiry, E.J. (PI), Royle, T.C.A. (Co-PI), and Kennedy J.R. (Co-PI). Save Our Seas Foundation. Towards an archaeology of sharks: building millennial-scale records of shark ecology in Monterey Bay. $9,987.50.

Johnson, C.C. (Co-PD/PI), Zimmerman, A. (PD/PI), Ocean Protector: A game-based curriculum to teach the impacts of ocean acidification and positive actions to help. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Award N079081, $40,000.00.

Kennedy, J.R. (Team Members: Miller-Camp, J. and Floyd, J.). National Endowment for the Humanities Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, program run by Alexandria Archive Institute and Open Context. Networking Archaeological Data and Communities.

Njau, J.K. NASA Solar System Workings. An East African Rift fluvio-lacustrine analog for Jezero crater, Mars. Sub-award $71962

Johnson, C.C. (PI), Chakraborty, Sunandan (Co-PI), Njau, J.K. (Co-PI), Simms, J., (Co-PI), Zimmerman, A. (Co-PI), P.D. Polly (Senior Personnel) 2024. CAIG: Addressing the urgent demand for taxonomic expertise and education in geosciences through innovative AI approaches.  NSF, ~$1,500,000.

Njau, J.K., Wenner-Gren Foundation, The Eastern African Association of Paleoanthropology & Paleontology Conference, Addis Ababa, 7/28-8/1/2024, $20,000.

Njau, J.K., Palaeontological Scientific Trust (PAST), The Eastern African Association of Paleoanthropology & Paleontology Conference, Addis Ababa, 7/28-8/1/2024, $8300.

Geological Society of America Graduate Student Research Grants (Bristol Brabson)

Paleontological Society Student Research Grants (Bristol Brabson)

Supporting Tomorrow’s Researchers and Today’s Advocates (STRATA) mentorship program (For NAPC 2024) (Anupama Chandroth)

The Exploration Fund Grant from The Explorers Club (Thomas W. LaBarge)

Chandroth, A. Extinction risk of Exploited Marine Bivalves, Royal Commission 1851 Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Chandroth, A. Extinction risk of Exploited Marine Bivalves, Royal Society Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Hartzell, S. Scleractiniamorphs: Clarifying potential Paleozoic origins of modern Scleractinia. The Paleontological Society, Student Research Grant, $1200

Hartzell, S. Scleractiniamorphs: Clarifying potential Paleozoic origins of modern Scleractinia. The Geological Society of America, Graduate Student Research Grant, $3000

Johnson, C. C. (PI), Chakraborty, Sunandan (Co-PI), Njau, J.K. (Co-PI), Simms, J., (Co-PI), Zimmerman, A. (Co-PI), P.D. Polly (Co-PI).  Submission date is 4/2/25.  CAIG: AI-Enable Taxonomic Research in Geosciences.  NSF, ~$1,500,000. 

LaBarge, T.W. Isotopic Perspectives on the Trophic Dynamics of the Prehistoric Serengeti and the Evolution of Hominin Diet. The Leakey Foundation, Research Grant (PhD candidate), $19,893.00

LaBarge, T.W. Ontogenetic Variation in Diet and Osteophagy in Tyrannosaurus rex: Insights from Zinc Isotopes. The Jurassic Foundation, Research Grant, $2970.69

Njau, J.K. (PI), LaBarge, T.W. (Co-PI). Doctoral Dissertation Research: Isotopic and Ichnological Insights into Predator-Prey Interactions and Human Evolution at Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli. National Science Foundation, Biological Anthropology Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (BA-DDRIG) (NSF 23-504), $33,472.03

Schlesinger, J. (PI), Craig, K. (Co-PI), Kennedy, J.R., (Co-PI), Daniella Chusyd (Co-PI). ArchIvory: A Database and Deep Learning Toolkit for Integrating Non-destructive XRF analysis with Existing Destructive Approaches to Population-Level Testing of Elephant Ivory. National Science Foundation, Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research (Innovation) (NSF 23-578), $397,670.

Johnson, C.C., Motz, G., Polly, P.D., Zimmerman, A., and Beeker, C.D. GEO OSE Track 1: Promoting an Accessible Ecosystem of Digitized Natural History Data.  NSF Submitted 3/16/23, $400,000. 

Fulghum, H.Z. National Science Foundation – Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Life Sciences. Living Fast and Dying Young: Is the Bone Structure of Small Mammals Driven by Mechanical Demands? $138,000.

Guiry, E.J. (PI) and Kennedy, J.R. (Co-PI). Chelonian Research Foundation. Building millennial-scale records of turtle ecology in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. $4,750.

LaBarge, T.W. International Association of GeoChemistry PhD Student Research Grants. 2022. Characterizing the Evolution of the Serengeti Ecosystem with Stable Isotopes.

LaBarge, T.W. Geological Society of America Graduate Student Research Grant. 2023. The Isotopic Ecology of a Serengeti Insectivore and Applications to Hominin Paleoecology.